Starlight Stove / Firefly project (2005-2007)  

	Carbon Impact: Human Health Impact: Environmental Impact:		Sponsors: Daimler Chrysler, NCIIA, Winrock International, UNESCO Field Tested: Yes, Winter 2006-7 Commercialized:  In Progress
	There are approximately 2.4 billion people in the world using wood or dung stoves for cooking. The use of dirty and inefficient cook stoves leads to many environmental and health problems for the users.

Most of these people, 1.6 billion, also lack electricity. Students at Colorado State University?s Global Innovation Center for Energy, Environment, and Health (GIC) have been developing a technology to address both these problems simultaneously with a single product. The product is a clean burning cook stove that also generates electricity. The stove reduces wood consumption through the use of an engineered combustion chamber known as a ?rocket elbow,? which burns the wood more efficiently. Through more complete combustion, and the use of a chimney, indoor smoke is dramatically reduced. The most novel feature of the stove is its ability to generate electricity. This is accomplished through the use of a thermoelectric generator (TEG) that captures waste heat from the stove and converts a small fraction (10-20 Watts) directly into electricity. This electricity is stored in a battery to be used at night for lighting, radio, or a small television.